Zum Auftakt der Spielzeit 2015/16 feiert die Bayerische Staatsoper mit Arrigo Boitos Oper Mefistofele gleich dreierlei Premieren, die teils jedoch nur verhalten aufgenommen wurden.
Mozart wrote 20 operas during his relatively short life, the first being performed in Salzburg in 1767, when the composer was just eleven years old. However, it is Idomeneo, written and premièred when Mozart was the ripe old age of 25, which is usually considered to be his first mature opera.The opera takes place on the island of Crete immediately after the Trojan War.
